Campaign To Win Official Apology For Alan Turing

Alan Turing (23 June 1912 -7 June 1954) was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. Turing often considered to be the father of modern computer science. Turing was homosexual, living in an era when homosexuality was considered a mental illness and homosexual acts were illegal.

Subsequent to his being outed, he was criminally prosecuted, which essentially ended his career. He died not long after from what was officially declared self-induced cyanide poisoning, although his mother, and some others, considered the circumstances of his death to be suspicious.

Now a group of admirers of the scientist - named as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century by Time Magazine - are lobbying the government to make a posthumous apology.